It was strong night with lots of creative costumes, including some creative ensemble costumes. Dinosaurs with the top costume and a three-way tie for second place between witches, Spidermen and ...
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26th Annual Report: Halloween at Duncan Street, Halifax, 2022 Halloween. It is an enduring annual ritual - and one that we are exploring at Pier 21 in an exhibit that opens this Saturda...
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Total this year was 127, down from last year's 151 trick-or-treaters, probably due to bad weather combined with parental Covid concerns. Still an impressive showing on a wet night with some he...
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TOTAL: 151 TRICK OR TREATERS. First caller at 5:40 pm. Last at 8:02 pm. (Plus 22 parents and 5 dogs in costume!) Nearly tied from last year , in spite of the Covid pandemic: it was a busy...
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The many identities that we explore at Halloween, which I explore every year in my annual Halloween survey , remind me of our wonderful exhibition, Family Bonds and Belonging. Nova Scotians have ...
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TOTAL: 154 trick or treaters. First caller at 5:57 pm. Last at 8:35 pm. Up from Halloween 2018 , a steady climb over the last four years. Best costume: A homemade bird costume with beautiful pa...
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22ND ANNUAL REPORT: HALLOWEEN AT DUNCAN STREET, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA Halloween on Duncan Street 2018 I have tracked Halloween trick-or-treaters at my doorstep in West End Halifax s...
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The Moon adds a ghostly glow to the Duncan Street Halloweenscape. 21ST ANNUAL REPORT: HALLOWEEN AT DUNCAN STREET, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA I have tracked Halloween trick-or-treaters at ...
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20TH ANNUAL REPORT: HALLOWEEN AT DUNCAN STREET, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA This year's jack-o-lantern I have tracked Halloween trick-or-treaters at my doorstep in West End Halifax for 20 y...
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Halloween with Black Bart's Flag on Duncan Street For the last 18 years I have tracked the Halloween costumes that come to my doorstep on Duncan Street in West End Halifax. You can see the r...
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Halloween from my window on Duncan Street I have conducted a census of Halloween costumes as they have come to my doorstep on Duncan Street in West End Halifax for 18 years. There was ...
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Our collection acquired a special artifact last year that connects the Museum to an intertwined story of adventure, learning and compassion. The newly donated transom, MMA, M2013.18.1 The...
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Photograph by Frederick William Wallace, WPA H25, MMA MP400.109.2 Those wearied by this winter's ice and snow might want to look into the eyes of Monty Muise, photographed by Frederick Wil...
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MMA, M2004.52.1&2, Gift of Evelyn Campbell, photo by Gerry Lunn As Registrar, I have the pleasure of collecting and handling all kinds of artifacts: from small to large, fragile to robust, a...
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A winter moonrise over CSS Acadia and the Museum wharves. Sharp lookouts will spot the Woodside ferry moving right with her red portside running light. As peaceful as can be, the image was ac...
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On December 6, our Museum participated in an evocative tribute to the Halifax Explosion , the disaster that struck Halifax in 1917 when the ammunition ship Mont-Blanc blew up and killed nearly 2...
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This pile of pennies was melted together by the fires of the Halifax Explosion. On December 6, 1917 the French ammunition ship Mont-Blanc exploded in Halifax Harbour after a collision with the N...
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Museum interpreter Matthew Hughson with his annual Christmas shoebox display Mariners often find themselves far from family and friends on the holidays; frequently living in isolated and au...
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The Museum's steamship CSS Acadia and the musician Sting share the same birthplace: Wallsend, a neighbourhood of Newcastle-on-Tyne in Northern England. Acadia was built in 1913 at the Swan Hunte...
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CBC Radio and television broadcast a story on November 5 about the famous British musician Sting and his new album, The Last Ship. The report features Sting's first Canadian interview about his...
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Halloween from my window on Duncan Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia For the last 17 years I have conducted a census of Halloween costumes that come to my doorstep on Duncan Street in West E...
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Today is the 208th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. We recently installed in our Navy Gallery the classic 1876 engraving "Death of Nelson" by Charles W. Sharpe, based on the 1861 painti...
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The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic participated in Halifax's late-night arts festival Nocturne on Saturday October 19, 2013. We found the perfect connection to this year's Nocturne theme of " Ti...
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One of the more compelling curiosities at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is a stuffed Snowy Owl in a glass case. This somewhat creepy object looks like it would ...
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This Saturday, August 3, our museum celebrates the 100th anniversary of the museum's largest artifact, the steamship Acadia, with CSS Acadia: 100 Years : an open house; crew re-union; and a speci...
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